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Barricaded man surrenders after NW OKC standoff

A man who barricaded himself inside an Oklahoma City home is in police custody after surrendering himself.

Oklahoma City police set up a perimeter just before 4:30 p.m. Wednesday near a neighborhood in the 17600 block of Red Tail Hawk Way, which is near Northwest 176th Street and Penn Avenue.

Police said they had received a call that a man had come out of a home and fired a shotgun. That man barricaded himself inside his home, officers said.

"The calling party reported it struck another house. The first officers on scene surrounded the house to make sure nobody was going to leave the house and then we began evacuating neighbors that were in the line of fire," Capt. David Brewer said.

As a precaution, West Field Elementary in the Edmond was placed on lockdown because the school was running an after-school care program there.

Authorities said it took them about two hours to talk the man out of the home.

"Finally after about two hours he answered his phone and when he did so we were able to convince him to come out," Brewer said.